Forget biographies in conventional books. Forget e-books too, while you're at it. A pair of Italian boffins have mashed up the idea of “Georeferences” and an ancient Roman form of travel guide called itineraria to create Keyhole Markup Language (KML) tours of a notable person's life.
A.C. Sparavigna and R. Marazzato, both of the …

COMMENTS

Use some imagination

Surely a more interesting use for this - particularly in historical studies - would be to map the progression of an historical event (skirmishes in a war, the movements of the Sarajevo assassin, the march of Garibaldi, etc) rather than the life of an individual, particularly if it is what that person DID, conceptually, which is important, more than where that person WAS at any given point in time?

Casanova

if they makes these for severl contemporenous people then cross reference them, we see who did meet ( and we already know about ) and, more interestingly, who might have met but that we weren't aware of.

Big Brother app

Make sure phone companies, Foursquare, Apple and Google etc keep all the location data from mobiles and apps of everyone ever. In the future one could have a map of everyone's movements tied to a timeline, perhaps with historical markers showing what was happening in various places. Once history notes who turned out to be important / infamous, we can see where they went and with whom they met.

Of course 99.99% of the data would be a terrible invasion of privacy, but hey, it would make a neat app.